Genesis 41:35 “Under the authority of Pharaoh, let them collect all the excess food f…”

Genesis 41:35

Under the authority of Pharaoh, let them collect all the excess food from these good years, that they may come and lay up the grain to be preserved as food in the cities.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.

World English Bible

Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and store grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

American Standard Version

And let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

Geneva Bible 1599

Also let them gather all the foode of these good yeeres that come, and lay vp corne vnder the hand of Pharaoh for foode, in the cities, and let them keepe it.

Darby Translation

and let them gather all the food of these coming good years, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, for food in the cities, and keep [it].

Young's Literal Translation

and they gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and heap up corn under the hand of Pharaoh — food in the cities; and they have kept [it],

Bible in Basic English

And let them get together all the food in those good years and make a store of grain under Pharaoh's control for the use of the towns, and let them keep it.

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Cross references

“gather”

Genesis 41:56 Genesis 41:48 Genesis 41:49 Genesis 45:6 Genesis 45:7

Genesis 41:56 · BSB

When the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened up all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians; for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:48 · BSB

During those seven years, Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city he laid up the food from the fields around it.

Genesis 41:49 · BSB

So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance, like the sand of the sea, that he stopped keeping track of it; for it was beyond measure.

Genesis 45:6 · BSB

For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.

Genesis 45:7 · BSB

God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

“hand”

Exodus 4:13

Exodus 4:13 · BSB

But Moses replied, “Please, Lord, send someone else.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

34Let Pharaoh take action and appoint commissioners over the land to take a fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.

36This food will be a reserve for the land during the seven years of famine to come upon the land of Egypt. Then the country will not perish in the famine.”

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